NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.
SUMMER INSTITUTE 2002
Economic Fluctuations and Growth
Growth Meeting
Chad Jones and Pete Klenow, Organizers
NBER
1050 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, Massachusetts
July 19, 2002
PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
FRIDAY, JULY 19:
8:30 AM Coffee and Pastries
9:00 AM SHARUN MUKAND, Tufts University
DANI RODRIK, Harvard University and NBER
Policy Convergence, Experimentation, and Economic Performance
10:00 AM Break
10:15 AM DARON ACEMOGLU, MIT and NBER
JAMES ROBINSON, UC, Berkeley
Economic Backwardness in Political Perspective
11:15 AM DOUGLAS GOLLIN, Williams College
STEPHEN PARENTE, University of Illinois
RICHARD ROGERSON, Arizona State University and NBER
Structural Transformation and Cross-Country Income Differences
12:15 PM Lunch
1:15 PM DANNY QUAH, London School of Economics
2:15 PM FRANCISCO ALCALA, Universidad de Murcia
ANTONIO CICCONE, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
3:15 PM Break
3:30 PM DARON ACEMOGLU and SIMON JOHNSON, MIT and NBER
JAMES ROBINSON, UC, Berkeley
The Rise of Europe: Atlantic Trade, Institutional Change and Economic Growth
4:30 PM Adjourn
6:00 PM Economic Fluctuations and Growth Research Meeting Group Dinner
(please indicate your attendance on the EFG reply form) 6/25/02